NDLI: Assessing housing quality in metropolitan Lima, Peru

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Author	Meng, Gang Hall, G. Brent
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	Recent increases in poverty and inequity combined with rapid population growth in developing countries have created substantial pressures on housing provision. Housing supply shortages and the deterioration in the quality of the housing stock through ageing and lack of repair have become serious problems that need to be addressed in these countries. This paper presents a housing quality index (HQI) model that seeks to provide government housing planners with household and area-based information that allows areas of deficient housing quality to be identified, as well as identifying the primary contributory factors in terms of a set of quality-based indicators. The model is applied using a multi-criteria analysis (MCA) of selected indicators in Lima, Peru. The HQI is calculated using micro-level census data (households) and is spatially aggregated to the city block level so that dwellings in the greatest need of improvements can be mapped and areas that are experiencing high housing quality inequity can be easily visualized. The case study in Lima demonstrates the effectiveness of the model and reveals the spatial distribution of housing quality in a typical Latin American mega-city.
Starting Page	413
Ending Page	439
Page Count	27
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15664910
Journal	Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
Volume Number	21
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15737772
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2006-10-19
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Developing countries Housing quality Informal settlements Multi-attribute analysis Spatial differentiation Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning Human Geography Housing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Geography, Planning and Development Urban Studies

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